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I just noticed that zooming well into the images shows weird textures and are obviously an artifact of my hdr setting of the camera. I...

Having been distracted by other foundry projects and visiting relatives etc I found a little time to go back to the Anzani. I have...

Thank you for that information.

Thanks for that. I will have to purchase a new one. A quick question about the silicon bronze. I found the ferrosilicon seemed to take...

Thanks :)

Hi Pat, That's not the impingement area but may be an artifact from the electric furnace but I am sure it's not from the diesel furnace...

I would like to say to treat this with caution. It may well work with models printed in vase mode/spiralise as the walls are only 0.4mm...

Fascinating stuff! Thank you for your input. However, after chipping away the thick skull on the lip of the crucible you can see that...

I have taken a pic showing how the burner is deployed. I put a piece of white pipe into the entry tube to show direction. This is to the...

I have cast Brass many many times and to be honest it's my favourite metal to cast. Also I had no problems doing homebrew tin bronze and...

Hi fellow foundrymen. Yesterday I trialled my updated diesel burner where I had increased the potential flow rate. This burns much more...

Awesome work!

Here’s a work in progress picture of test fitting a Seal Major engine in a model of a Caterpillar Sixty crawler tractor. This is not the...

Today was taken up mainly with the weekly food shop but I did get a couple of hours in the workshop so I knocked up a mould in Petrobond...

Not much progress to date as I am waiting a delivery of fresh bar stock so in the meantime I machined the flywheels to accept the...